Supervenience, Properties, and Relations

Supervenience-based arguments for moral naturalism have tended to apply only to moral properties, not to relations.  One might have thought that they could easily be generalised so as to apply to relations as well.  However, as I'll argue here, this may not be so easy.

Blaming Past Generations

According to Bernard Williams, what is true about relativism is that the more distant cultures are historically and culturally, the less willing we are to make moral appraisals that concern them. We don’t think that their ethical views are incorrect, and we won’t adopt reactive […] Read More

Personal Identity and Bioethics Essays

Some of our readers may be interested in this new collection of essays just published in Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics on the general topic of personal identity and bioethics.  There are excellent papers by Eric Olson, Marya Schechtman, Tim Campbell & Jeff McMahan, James Delaney […] Read More

The Character Project: $3.67 Million Grant

Congratulations to our own Christian Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University, who is Principal Investigator and Project Leader for The Character Project, which has recently been awarded a $3.67 million dollar grant from the Templeton Foundation […] Read More